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Purpose – Reputation is conceptualised as the believed effects that any social agent (ranging from a person to a … company to a country) can have. Food reputation is beliefs about the effects of food on its consumers. On the basis of a … multidimensional construct for food reputation derived from qualitative and correlational studies, this paper aims to test four …
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reputation conveying information about unobserved supplier quality, which is important for identifying the best tender; and … whether price is contingent on supplier reputation and on buyer's quality sensitiveness in a competitive bidding situation … representing tenders from subcontractors of plumbing services. In the scenarios the subcontractors differ on their reputation and …
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. However, the second price sealed-bid auction is more efficient, since the experts do not incur costs from the failure to …
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The importance of fit between the endorser and the endorsed product has been described as the “match‐up hypothesis”. Much “match‐up hypothesis” research has focused on physical attraction. We present two studies which collectively suggest that, while attractive endorsers do...
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increase functional retention of employees. Functional retention was found to be higher for experts than for their non … distinguishes between two categories of employees: experts and non-experts; fourth, it extends the limited literature on IT workers …
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Purpose – This study aims to examine how market participants changed the way they process earnings information after learning of the implementation of hedging activities. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of derivative user and non‐user firms, this study empirically compares...
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Purpose – The Delphi technique is used to achieve consensus among experts and/or gain judgment on complex matters. This … hospitality. Design/methodology/approach – The classical Delphi is characterized by the involvement of experts and its iterative … a research instrument for a limited number of prestigious experts well‐acquainted with one another who might have …
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organizations. Describes telephone interviews with 28 KEs who had developed ES for end‐users of all kinds from experts to novices …
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outperformed the best‐expert technique, indicating the need for inputs from multiple experts. The significant overconfidence effect … dependence between experts is high. Although it was found that the number of experts and the number of seed questions also … experts is required to ensure satisfactory aggregated performance would be desirable. Furthermore, other metrics or …
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experts does not solely depend on weak signals (reputation) or on strong signals (the expert’s social status). Rather, the …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the solicitation of outside experts in the upstream phase of …: how are these experts identified, selected and mobilised? While companies are compelled to manage exploration projects …
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